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After crossing the equator last night, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is now making its way across the Doldrums, with a comfortable lead over its competitors. Meanwhile, MACIF’s decision to head west has proved to be a very good strategy, and…
A lot happened in the 2019 season to the sailors in the IMOCA class. There were three events on the calendar in the Globe Series: the Bermudes 1000 Race (solo), the Rolex Fastnet Race (double-handed) and more recently the Transat…
I had been planning for quite some time to take Redwing north to Boatworks on the Coomera River as I had heard very good reports, it seemed like just the place for an extended haulout. My first booking there had…
New for 2020 is Zhik’s APEX range of jackets, shorts and long pants, made from a highly breathable, two-layer, waterproof fabric with a DWR (durable water repellent) coating and fully-taped seams. The APEX jacket is an all-round coastal/offshore jacket with…
The CRC Bay of Islands Sailing Week Beach Party is on the cards again, and organisers are predicting another sell-out success on the back of the last event. Hundreds of regatta participants, together with their families and friends, are expected…
The front-runners in the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore have had their ups and downs throughout the series, and this Saturday’s Bird Island Race – a crucial lead-up to the Rolex Sydney Hobart – will be sure to see further changes…
OLAS Core is a small, portable, wireless Man Overboard Alarm system for boats up to 50ft long and up to 15 crew. It instantly triggers a loud, 85 decibel emergency alert, within four seconds if there is a man overboard…
Two semi-finalists have been decided on Day 3 of the Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta as Matthew Whitfield delivered a knockout blow to defending champion Frankie Dair in today’s Quarter-Finals, scoring 3-0, to book his berth in tomorrow’s semi-finals. Whitfield…
Day 5 Update: 0800 UTC, 27 November, 2019: Five days into the RORC Transatlantic Race, the international fleet is experiencing shifty conditions with a light to moderate wind oscillating between nor' east and east. All of the teams are south of…
All three trimarans racing on the Brest Atlantiques are continuing today to head towards the west, with Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, in first position, expected very soon to cross the equator and arrive in the Northern Hemisphere. Even though Brest…
That is how Christophe Houdet, Francis Joyon’s faithful friend and one of the crew of four aboard IDEC SPORT for the ASIAN TOUR, described the situation. Slowed down to horribly low speeds yesterday and completely stopped for around seven hours…
There were some big movers on Day 2 of the Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta as the international teams took charge, with all teams fighting for the prized top four spots which secures them a berth in the quarter-finals and…
LONDON, 26 NOVEMBER 2019 – The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organisers of the Rolex Fastnet Race, announced at a press conference today that the City of Cherbourg will host the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race for the 2021…
London – November 26, 2019: Ben Ainslie – the most successful Olympic sailor of all time – today joined the Great Britain SailGP Team. Beginning in the global league’s second season kicking off in February 2020, Ainslie and a world-class squad…
It was a day of contrasts on day two of the 2019 Hyundai 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 Oceania Championships. With breezes at almost the polar opposite to yesterday with a 10-12 knot seabreeze from the north, the fleets headed…
November 26, 2019 – Swiss photographer Loris von Siebenthal is the winner of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image photo competition 2019. No less than 133 photographers representing 29 nationalities joined the 10th edition of the event. The photos submitted illustrate the 2019 sailing…
After three weeks racing on the Brest Atlantiques, the two leading trimarans, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild and Actual Leader, are now following a similar route and heading towards the equator at a moderate pace. Meanwhile MACIF, which headed west on…
The Sydney Morning Herald. By Nick Toscano. Australian iron ore billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest says his ambitious plan to tackle ocean pollution by raising the raw cost of making plastic from fossil fuels has secured the support of leading global petrochemical…
The Western Australian and Etchells communities were saddened to hear of the death of Bill Steele on Saturday, November 23, 2019. Bill, who was planning his 80th birthday celebrations for next February, suffered a brain aneurysm while at the helm of…
The French Riviera has a ring to it that conjures notions of opulence, style, exquisite cuisine, superb wine, crystal beaches, luxurious gin palaces and the turquoise Mediterranean Sea. All of these notions are true but far and away the best…
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has confirmed the finalists for Male Athlete of the Year and Female Para-athlete of the Year categorieswith two weeks to go until the AIS Sport Performance Awards (#ASPAs). Australian sailors Tom Burton and Matthew…
It will be a home affair for Melbourne’s world class Finn sailor Oliver Tweddell when the Finn Gold Cup – the World Championships of the Olympic Finn class – starts in Melbourne in a couple of weeks. Seven months out from the…
The opening day of the 2019 Musto International Youth Match Racing Regatta got off to an intense start as wild weather conditions swept across Sydney at midday, temporarily postponing racing. The fleet of 12 competitors had to work around the ever-changing conditions…
This morning, the Morrison Government introduced the Special Recreational Vessels Bill 2019 that will allow foreign owned superyachts to charter in Australia. The ability for these vessels to charter will unlock an estimated 11,800 jobs and $1.64 billion in revenue to…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) is pleased to announce that the fourth-largest fleet in the history of the race will take part in the 75th running of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race; owners and crews coming from far…
On Saturday 23 November, Deputy Commander Southport Mike Hoffman welcomed Gold Coast waterways’ proponents and VIPS to the 2019 Volunteer Coast Guard ‘Blessing of the Fleet’ at Southport QF1. After the traditional smoking ceremony, performed members of the Yugambeh People,…
Two 49er teams well known to the podium but yet to qualify their countries for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games finished first and second at the three-day Oceanic Championships which served as a warm-up event for next week's 2019 Hyundai…
The Ocean Race will return to Cape Town for the 12th time as the most challenging offshore race in the sport comes to South Africa in the 2021-22 edition. Cape Town has been an iconic stop in the race since…
Glamour conditions greeted the 178 international teams on the opening day of racing at the 2019 49er, 49erFX and Nacra17 Oceania Championships. The three-day warm-up regatta before next week's world championships is hosted by Auckland’s Royal Akarana Yacht Club. With…
On a route that they deliberately prolonged by almost 1500 miles in comparison to the Great Circle Route, the IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT has managed to get ahead of what was forecast by taking a long route down…
Bilbao, November 25, 2019: Don McIntyre, Chairman of the Ocean Globe Race, announced at the Yacht Racing Forum today the addition of a “CLASSIC Challenge”. This new class will open another eight entries to former Whitbread Maxis over 71 feet and…
After almost three weeks at sea, the three trimarans still racing on Brest Atlantiques are continuing towards the equator, which they should cross on Thursday. While all the teams have followed a fairly similar route until now, MACIF yesterday decided…
Lisa Blair, a high-profile yachtswoman and adventurer on a mission to break records and leave her mark on the world, is joining the fleet for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 2019 Melbourne to Hobart, and in doing so,…
The arrival of the final competitor, Georges Kick, on Saturday night through into Sunday, marked the official closure of the finish line for this second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019 between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the…
Bilbao (ESP), 26 November 2019 – Summarising the sailing season and celebrating the best professional directors and cameramen from all over the world: this is the aim of the Mirabaud Sailing Video Award. An objective achieved for the third consecutive…
I once read that humans are incapable of remembering pain. That is to say that although we recall an event as painful, we actually cannot evoke that physical sensation of pain we experienced. This surely explains why women are willing…
The Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) and Australian Sailing (AS) are delighted to announce the appointment of Malcolm Page OAM as the Head Coach of the VIS Sailing Program. When Page retired his sailing career in 2012 he finished as…
The 2019 RORC Transatlantic Race is now into the second day with the entire fleet anticipated to leave the Canary Islands and head into the remote Atlantic Ocean on Sunday 24 November. As expected, Swedish VO65 Childhood 1, skippered by…
A great adventure has now begun for over a thousand sailors from fifty-three nations who departed Las Palmas de Gran Canaria today to cross the Atlantic to Saint Lucia as part of ARC 2019, the world's largest transocean sailing rally….
A $560,000 yacht allegedly used in a foiled attempt to import almost 1 tonne of illicit drugs into Western Australia is set to go under the hammer. WA Police Force initially seized the Sail Yacht Zero (SY Zero) in September…
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